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" My husband and I like to reminisce about how, when we were 9, we read straight through L. Frank Baum's 'Oz' series, books filled with wizards and witches. And you know what those subversive tales taught us? That we loved to read! "

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" As a child who loved to read, I had trouble finding honest stories. I felt that adults were always keeping secrets from me, even in the books I was reading. "

Judy Blume

Reading

Finding

Loved

" I loved to read, and I think any child who loves to read will read anything, including the back of the cereal box, which I did every morning. "

" When I was young, my parents had a library in our living room. I was always free to browse and read. "

" I'm thinking of sending out censorship packets: information to share with those who want to defend my books when they come under fire. I'll tell why I wrote them and include reviews and letters of support from children and their parents. "

" I don't do issue writing. I do character writing. "

" I wish I could prevent my kids from making all the mistakes I've made. But I can't do that. No parent can. "

" By the time I was 12, I was reading my parents' books because there weren't teenage books then. "

" I believe that 'The Artist' is the kind of movie you see and you don't forget. I know it's going to stay with me. "

Judy Blume

Believe

You

" I love to watch movies. "

" When I'm writing, I'm never trying to teach anything - maybe I'm trying to illuminate. "

" I can't read fiction when I'm writing fiction, because I get intimidated if I read something really good. "

" I was a fearful kid and, for some crazy reason, a pretty fearless writer. "

" I've never been one to let others decide what's right for me or my children. "

Judy Blume

Children

Been

" My mother's mantra was, 'How would it look to the neighbors?' And so you don't do anything because you're worried about how it would look to the neighbors. "

" I'm an optimistic person, so I like to leave my readers with a sense of hopefulness. "

" I discovered the National Coalition Against Censorship when I felt totally alone in my fight to protect intellectual freedom, and that group changed my life. I was no longer alone. "

" My characters live inside my head for a long time before I actually start a book about them. Then, they become so real to me I talk about them at the dinner table as if they are real. Some people consider this weird. But my family understands. "

" If those of us who care about making our own decisions about what to read and what to think don't take a stand, others will decide for us. "

" I was so inspired by Beverly Cleary's funny and wonderful books. "

" I wish I'd gone to a small liberal-arts college where I'd have read the great books instead of a large university where I majored in early-childhood education. "

" In sixth grade, I made up books to give book reports on. "

Judy Blume

Book

Books

" I'm not the world's best mother, though kids always assume I must be. "

" I don't think people change; electronics change, the things we have change, but the way we live doesn't change. "

" The '50s were a secretive time. "

" Here's the thing: If you don't want your kids to read a book, fine. You can tell them not to read a book, and maybe they will and maybe they won't. But you can't say what other kids can read. "

" The list of gifted teachers and librarians who find their jobs in jeopardy for defending their students' right to read, to imagine, to question, grows every year. "

" I'm an Obama chick. "

Judy Blume

Obama

Chick

" I wrote 'Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret' right out of my own experiences and my own feelings when I was in sixth grade. "

Judy Blume

Feelings

God

" What can happen if a young reader picks up a book he/she isn't yet ready for? Questions, maybe. Usually, that child puts down the book and says, 'Boring.' Or, 'I'm not ready for this.' Kids are really good at knowing what they can handle. "

" I'm phobic about thunderstorms. "

Judy Blume

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